The Women's Points Race was one of the 8 women's events at the 2008 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, held in Manchester, United Kingdom.
22 Cyclists from 22 countries participated in the contest. Because of the number of entries, there were no qualification rounds for this discipline. Consequently, the event was run direct to the final.
The Final and only race was run on March 29. The competition consisted on 100 laps, making a total of 25 km with 10 sprints.
Elapsed Time=31:58.990 Average Speed=46.899 km/h
| Rank [1] | Name | Country | Sprint Number | Finish Order | Lap Points | Total Points | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | + | – | Balance | |||||
 | Marianne Vos |  Netherlands | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 20 | 33 | ||||||||
 | Trine Schmidt |  Denmark | 5 | 20 | 20 | 25 | |||||||||||
 | Vera Carrara |  Italy | 20 | 20 | 20 | ||||||||||||
| 4 | Leire Olaberria |  Spain | 5 | 5 | 1 | 11 | |||||||||||
| 5 | Yoanka González |  Cuba | 5 | 5 | 10 | ||||||||||||
| 6 | Svetlana Paulikaite |  Lithuania | 3 | 5 | 8 | ||||||||||||
| 7 | Olga Slyusareva |  Russia | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 8 | Rebecca Quinn |  United States | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | |||||||||
| 9 | Pascale Jeuland |  France | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | |||||||||
| 10 | Jarmila Machačová |  Czech Republic | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 11 | Wong Wan Yiu |  Hong Kong | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 12 | Katherine Bates |  Australia | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 13 | Li Yan |  China | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| 14 | Belem Guerrero Méndez |  Mexico | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| 15 | María Luisa Calle |  Colombia | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||
| 16 | Charlotte Becker |  Germany | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||||
| 17 | Gina Grain |  Canada | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 18 | Lesya Kalytovska |  Ukraine | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 19 | Elizabeth Armitstead |  Great Britain | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 20 | Aksana Papko |  Belarus | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 21 | Catherine Cheatley |  New Zealand | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 22 | Lee Min Hye |  South Korea | 2 | -20 | -20 | -18 | |||||||||||
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